@MWolf Please refrain from using culturally derogatory terms such as “furriners” to describe foreigners. This is an open forum read by minors and internationals. As a young American, I absolutely condemn any language of mockery arisen from bigotry.
“You realize that you have just contradicted yourself? On one hand, you claim that there will be more space for American students if the international students are not there, and then you claim that the American students WON’T be there, because they are taking gap years.”
I fail to see the contradiction. I wrote: “…HBS for the first time in its history will only enroll 720ish compared the annual target of 930ish.” This is clear evidence that they underestimated the number of gap year apps, therefore had a wl that was too small.
@twoinanddone is 100% correct. Very sad direction, but legally correct. Maybe Bill Lee is getting old… or Bacow is using this opportunity to run for something himself or help someone run…
I see APA being the core argument (again) with all other complaints unsubstantiated qualitatively or quantitatively. However, the claim that the defendant “fail(ed) to consider the need to protect public health and safety (of American citizens in their states)” might be something they can substantiate in a short time span… pointing to the rapidly escalating COVID cases in FL, TX and CA, and how some towns already have hospitals at capacity. No hearing date set yet.
Coalition of plaintiff state AGs are from Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
VA, NM and NV are the only dark red COVID states here…
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Not surprised. I figured the administration would scale back. Sounds like they are beginning to think sensible abt allowing current students to stay. Students coming in would have a hard time with travel restrictions either way.
It will be interesting to see what further details, including if an expiration date is set. Will also be interesting to hear if the plaintiffs will be satisfied. Reading the Harvard/MIT filing, they are also requesting reimbursement for legal fees.
Not a lawyer, but I think if ICE modifies their current exception language to focus on new college students, this will undercut the Harvard/MIT challenge. Sending a current student in the US back to wartorn Syria would be a powerful example that they can no longer cite.
The WSJ article also mentioned that consulates have been told to not issue visas to students attending schools that have declared that they are online only. I think in the next week or two, the online only schools will experience a large attrition of rising freshman from international locations. Wonder if they will be proactively offered gap year options, if the timeline to apply has run out, especially given circumstances not in their control.